Aristocrates (grammarian)

Aristocrates (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοκράτης) was a grammarian (or "schoolmaster")[1] of Ancient Greece who despite being described as a "grammarian" is nevertheless mostly remembered as the source of a remedy for toothache passed down by either the elder or younger Andromachus, and later quoted by medical annalist Galen.[2][3] Because he was not described as himself being a doctor or scientist, but is quoted by later medical scientists, he is sometimes referred to as an example or practitioner of Ancient Greek folk or traditional medicine.[4]

For other people named Aristocrates, see Aristocrates.

He must have lived at some time in or before the first century. He is also quoted by John Cramer in his Anecdota Graeca.[5]

References
  1. Nutton, Vivian (2013). "Hellenistic Medicine". Ancient Medicine (2 ed.). Routledge. p. 153. ISBN 9780415520942. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  2. Galen, De Compositione Medicamentorum Localium v. 5, vol. xii. pp. 878, 879
  3. Hockley, A. (1859). "An Historical Review of Dental Surgery: From the Earliest Period to the Commencement of the Present Century". The Dental Review. H. Baillière. 1 (1): 20. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  4. Nutton, Vivian (2016). "Folk Medicine in the Galenic Corpus". In Harris, William V. (ed.). Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations. Brill Publishers. p. 276. ISBN 9789004326040. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  5. John Cramer, Anecdota Graeca, p. 395

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Elder, Edward (1870). "Aristocles". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 303.

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